Microsoft Event Recap: Learn what’s Next For Education

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and his teams at Microsoft held an event today focused on the education market and how Microsoft is working to support students, teachers and administrators worldwide with Microsoft Windows, Office and other software.  In this post I will recap some of the high points.  The event was broadcast virtually  at …

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Debugging .NET Core From VS2017 on Windows Subsystem for Linux

The new Microsoft is all about cross-platform and expanding the reach of .NET. In this post we will setup a local development environment Windows to debug against a .NET Core console application in the Windows Subsystem for linux.  Buckle up! Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) WSL is a new feature in Windows 10 which enables …

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Dotnet Core on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux ERROR – sudo: unable to resolve host

Started playing with some of the .NET Core source code this week and decided to try it on the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux.  I found the install page and ran some commands in the console to find out what version of Linux was running: $ uname -aLinux DESKTOP-12345 3.4.0+ #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 1 …

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Nano, where is get-website (WebAdministration)?

In my recent testing with Nano, I found the xWebsite DSC resource and further the get-website PowerShell cmdlets are not available on Nano.  Initially, I thought I had made a mistake in my Nano configuration/setup but eventually found some documentation on the subject. Nano Server is a clean server platform for the future and so …

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Talk Recap: TDD with Chef, PowerShell DSC and Pester on Windows

Just finished a fun talk at the 2017 Powershell & Devops Summit about test-driven development with Chef, PowerShell DSC and Pester on WIndows.  We ended up with 60+ attendees in the talk, all of which were engaged and asked some really great questions. Source All the demo code is available on Github at the following …

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No more branching… And we love it!

Three plus years ago as we were starting to contemplate the move toward Continuous Delivery and speeding up our velocity of value delivery to the business, we immediately identified branching as one of the blockers.  We were the traditional enterprise Microsoft development shop.  Team Foundation Server 2008 with many long-lived branches, typically Main, DEV1 and …

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